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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 285–320.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Samuel Levey The article is a critical notice of Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad . Garber presents a developmental reading of Leibniz's metaphysics that focuses on Leibniz's evolving analysis of body and force as the key to his account of substance. Garber claims that Leibniz shifts...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 98–101.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Charlotte Witt ARISTOTLE'S THEORY OF SUBSTANCE. By Michael Wedin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 482. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 1 (January 2002)
ARISTOTLE’S THEORY OF SUBSTANCE...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 439–442.
Published: 01 July 2002
...Alison Laywine Jeffrey Edwards, Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 277. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
his sometimes tortuous and obscure mode...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 432–434.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Logi Gunnarsson Robert Audi, The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 286. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2003...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 31–88.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Suárez, Francisco. 1866 . Disputationes metaphysicae [DM] . Paris. Reprinted Hildesheim: Olms, 1965. ____. 2000 . On the Formal Cause of Substance: Metaphysical Disputation XV . Trans. J. Kronen and J. Reedy. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. Thomas Aquinas. 1882 -. S. Thomae Aquinatis...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 January 2001
...John Heil THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS: SUBSTANCE, IDENTITY, AND TIME. By E. J. Lowe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 275. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS
concerns the metaphysics of Lewis, Plantinga, Forbes, and Rosen...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 155–204.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Anat Schechtman Descartes notoriously characterizes substance in two ways: first, as an ultimate subject of properties (that is, a subject in which properties inhere without itself inhering in anything); second, as an independent entity. The characterizations have appeared to many to diverge...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 292–297.
Published: 01 April 2016
... salient as he offers powerful reasons for adjudicating between competing interpretations. Melamed says—and I agree—that modes in general, including infinite modes, are divisible, while substance and attributes are not. At the same time, Melamed wants to avoid an acosmist reading and to affirm...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Alan Nelson J. A. Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne, Substance and Individuation in Leibniz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 307. Cornell University 2004 Adams, R. 1994 . Leibniz . New York: Oxford University Press. Mates, B. 1985 . The Philosophy...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Jeffrey K. McDonough Confronting the threat of a Spinozistic necessitarianism, Leibniz insists that not all possible substances are compossible—that they can't all be instantiated together—and thus that not all possible worlds are compossible—that they can't all be instantiated together. While...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... in general” is a substance, and since all substances are “by their nature incorruptible,” this sort of body is incorruptible as well. In this article I defend a pluralist reading of this passage, according to which there are indefinitely many bodies-taken-in-general, each of which counts as an incorruptible...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 449–495.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of the soul; second, the identification of the relevant fallacies. This essay examines Kant's account in the First Paralogism of how these two elements combine to produce the doctrine that the soul is a substance. It is argued that Kant has a novel, ingenious—and even somewhat plausible—account of how...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 139–143.
Published: 01 January 2004
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and Garrett, which are two of the standouts in this collection.
Michael Della Rocca, in his paper “Spinoza’s Substance Monism,” shows that
a number of Spinoza’s most basic metaphysical commitments allow him to
argue for substance monism in ways that have not been hitherto properly
appreciated...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 469–473.
Published: 01 July 2020
... attempt to resolve the enigmas involved in Spinoza’s thorny discussion of mind eternity (chap. 9), and a fascinating study of the interrelations among the attributes and the substance (chap. 10), the conclusion of which leads Garrett to propose that Spinoza’s attributes are fundamental kinds, or manners...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 April 2015
... far more extrinsic than we normally think, and he rejects the relations-between-universals account since the substance-powers-and-liabilities account (SPL) is simpler and equally well explains causation and the laws of nature. According to SPL, the fundamental laws are regularities in the causal...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 234–238.
Published: 01 April 2014
... cause, completely rejected. In chapter 4, Griffin seeks to solve the long-standing and much-discussed problem of the nature of incompossibility in Leibniz, a relation that is central to determining what collections of intrinsically possible substances constitute possible worlds. Leibniz seems...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and Renaissance philosophy will unlock the hidden meaning of modern texts.” Now, with a magnificent book in which he examines a range of topics related to the metaphysics of substance, Pasnau has made research into the “scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy” livelier yet. He seems, however, to have changed...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2016
... monads may, in a perfectly reasonable sense, be spatially located. What, according to Leibniz, is the relationship between extended bodies and the substances that are supposed to serve as their foundations? For the past twenty-five years or so, answers to this question have largely been shaped by two...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 451–454.
Published: 01 July 2021
... in Physics 1.2 that Parmenides and Melissus understood ‘being’ univocally when it is actually said in many ways, and he proposes several ways of understanding their view that everything is one. It might mean that everything is substance, either such that everything is one substance...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of
Leibniz’s early writings shows that most of his mature metaphysical theses
develop quite naturally out of his early attempts to work out a conception of
substance with an overtly Aristotelian pedigree. In addition, Mercer argues that
the main impetus behind many of the developments in Leibniz’s early...
